I haven't played Watch_Dogs yet, but I've seen enough of it to know this is more or less accurate, as illustrated by the video linked below.

EDIT: The video has since disappeared. It was gameplay footage of Watch_Dogs in which protagonist Aiden Pierce uses Profiler, a hacking app that shows the names and an "interesting fact" about nearby non-player characters (NPCs). In the video, the NPC nearest to Aiden is identified as "Transgender". The player immediately draws a shotgun and guns the NPC down. Randomly killing NPCs is a pretty typical act in an open-world game, though the video makes it pretty clear why that particular NPC was killed.

So, I was a bit perturbed when the Watch_Dogs scriptwriter tweeted out the following.